Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > > The old "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been changed to
> > > > "ramdisk_size=<ram_size>" to make it clearer.  The original
> > > > "ramdisk=<ram_size>" has been kept around for compatibility reasons,
> > > > but it may be removed in the future.
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > i just the other day submitted a patch to remove that backward
> > > compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by
> > > geert uytterhoeven.
> > 
> > Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt?  (People check that
> > for warning of upcoming changes that impact existing code.  They may not
> > notice something elsewhere after they've got it working...)
> > 
> 
> The same objection applies to this as to the previous one.  In that respect,
> an Ack from a maintainer of an almost unused architecture is meaningless
> (sorry, Geert.)

Of course I ack'ed the m68k part, iff the non-arch-specific part was accepted.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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